by aera | May 5, 2015 | News
On March 21st, AERA celebrated the 10th anniversary of our field school program in Egypt with a party at the AERA-Egypt Center in Giza. Many of our graduates attended the celebration alongside current students, staff members, and officials from the Ministry of...
by aera | May 5, 2015 | News
Sometime around 1000 B.C.E. pig use in the Middle East declined and was subsequently religiously prohibited. Around the same time that pork fell out of favor, chickens were introduced into the area. AERA Chief Research Officer Dr. Richard Redding’s paper...
by aera | Apr 21, 2015 | 2015 Field Season, Blog
by Reham Mahmoud Zaky (Field-School student, Inspector of the Ministry of Antiquities) In a warm atmosphere, the 10th anniversary of AERA field school was held in the presence of Dr. Mark Lehner, Ana Tavares, and Mohsen Kamel from AERA accompanied by our supervisors,...
by aera | Apr 3, 2015 | 2015 Field Season, Blog
by Kirk Roberts (archaeologist) As work on site draws to a close at Standing Wall Island (SWI), Field School 3 have begun the work of painstakingly recording, photographing and drawing all of the archaeological remains that we can see. What began as an open space...
by aera | Mar 31, 2015 | 2015 Field Season, Blog
by Ayman Eltokhey (Field-school student, Inspector of the Ministry of Antiquities) For the last field trip of the Beginner’s Field-School 2015 we gathered in the villa at 6:00 AM, and then the bus moved towards to the Red Sea at 7:00 AM. The weather was very...
